English 9 Final

Plot

The sequence of events that make up a story, including the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

Conflict

The struggle between opposing forces in a story, which drives the plot forward and creates tension. Internal, and External

Setting

The time and place in which a story occurs, providing context for the characters and events.

Static Character

A character who does not undergo significant change throughout the story, remaining the same from beginning to end.

Dynamic Character

A character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story, developing in response to events and conflicts.

Flat Character

A character with a simplistic and unchanging personality, often serving a specific role in the story without deep development.

Round Character

A character with a complex and multi-dimensional personality, who exhibits a range of emotions and traits that evolve throughout the story.

Protagonist

The main character in a story, often driving the plot forward and experiencing significant conflicts. “The Good guy”

Antagonist

The character or force that opposes the protagonist, creating conflict in the story. Often viewed as the 'bad guy' or adversary.

Foils

Characters that contrast with another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight particular qualities of the main character.

Theme

The central idea or underlying message of a story, often revealing insights about life, society, or human nature.

Allusion

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance, often without explicit explanation.

Motif

A recurring element, theme, or idea in a literary work that has symbolic significance and helps to develop a theme or enhance the overall

Foreshadowing

A warning or indication of a future event in the story.

Local Color

The customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character.

Tone

An authors attitude towards a certain topic

Comic Relief

comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections.

Soliloquy

a monologue in which a character in a play expresses thoughts and feelings while being alone on stage

Tragedy

a genre of drama based on human suffering, specifically by way of terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters.

Sonnet

a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization

Couplet

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

Imagery

Words that trigger the reader to recall images, or mental pictures, that engage one of the five senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.

Simile

Comparing two alike things while using the words, “like: or “as”.

Metaphor

Comparing two alike things not using the words “like” or “as”

Oxymoron

a literary device that combines two seemingly contradictory words to form an often thought-provoking concept or idea

Ex: Honorable Vilian

Personification

Giving non-living things traits and quality’s of living things.

1st Person POV

the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view

3rd Person Limited

uses a narrator with access to only one character's perspective, a limited perspective.

3rd person Objective

the narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters

3rd Person Omniscient

a narrative perspective in writing where the narrator isn't a character in the story but has the power to communicate all the characters' thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration

Apostrophe

a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object

Opposite of Personification

Dramatic Irony

when the audience knows something the characters don't, creating tension, suspense, or humor.

Situational Irony

when the actual outcome of a situation is starkly different from what was expected, creating a surprising twist.

Verbal Irony

using words to convey a meaning that is opposite to or markedly different from their literal interpretation something that is said

Bias

the presence of prejudice, stereotypes, or a one-sided perspective within written works.

Primary Source

original, uninterpreted information (often, but not exclusively textual) relevant to a literary research topic.

Secondary Source

created by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you're researching.

Objective

a word to describe something that is purely factual and not influenced by personal feelings.

Subjective

the expression of a writer's personal opinions, feelings, beliefs, and perspectives.

Adversary

an enemy

Boisterous

Loud, wild, energetic

Nuptial

related to a wedding cunning: sneaky and clever

Vile

Disgusting or Evil

Predominant

main/most common

unwieldy

hard to carry, move, control

Banishment

being forced to leave a place

reconcile

to make peace again

exile

being forced to live away from home

fickle

changing your mind often

lament

to express sadness or grief

Shroud

a cloth used to wrap a dead body; also, something that covers or hides

Dismal

gloomy, sad, or depressing

Vial

a small glass container for liquid

ambiguity

unclear meaning

loathsome

disgusting or hated

peruse

to read carefully

remnant

a leftover piece or part